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...staff has totalled an incredible 316 appearances in 106 games this season. Although only McBridge has over eight wins, Dean Chance, Bo Belinsky, and Don Lee have been effective both as starters and relievers, and Rigney has even coazed good performance from the like of Ryne Duren and Eli Grbas...
...sudden explosion of power? Pitchers moan that the modern ball is more rabbit than horsehide. "They've got it jacked up," insists Los Angeles Angels Reliefer Ryne Duren. Says Cleveland Manager Jimmy Dykes: "When some of these little fellows start popping 'em over the fence, you have to figure they are winding the rubber in the ball tighter. They must even be using elastic glue, too." Baseball manufacturers huffily denied that souped-up balls are the reason. "There has been no change in the construction of the ball in the last quarter-century," says Spalding President Edwin...
Yankee Manager Casey Stengel lost his composure ("I'm getting damned mad about this") and finally browbeat the Yankees into winning one. Don Larsen and Ryne Duren combined for a 4-0 shutout, but at that only four hits came from Yankee bats all day-three of them by the rejuvenated Bauer ("Being a good loser is the bunk"), who knocked in all four runs with his third series homer, two singles. He still managed to get picked off first once again...
...Ryne Duren, Casey Stengel's flame-thrower who followed Whitey Ford and Art Ditmar to the mound, fired his blinding fast ball past the Braves from the sixth to the 10th when he suddenly lost his stuff. The big fellow with the thick glasses struck out the side in the sixth and ninth, fanning eight in 4 2/3 innings before he faltered with two out in the 10th...
...came grizzled old Casey to talk with his pitcher. Casey decided to stay with Duren but when Brave Joe Adcock pumped a single to center, moving the potential tying run to third base, Stengel summoned Bob Turley from the Yankee bull pen. Turley had to face Frank Torre, a left-handed batter hitting for Del Crandall...